downhill
adj/ˈdaʊnˌhɪl/
Etymology From down- + hill.
1
Located towards or at the bottom of a slope or hill.
- Moraines are found at the downhill end of a glacier.
2
Going down a slope or a hill.
- This year's race is on a downhill course.
- It was nearly all downhill into Shrewsbury, with two intermediate stops, and a grand sequence of long curves around which Soult nuzzled her way with a quick side-to-side action.1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 706:
3
Broadly Easy.
- That's the hard part of the job done. From now on it's downhill all the way.
- Antonyms
- uphill
- Derived terms
- downhill creep, downhill ice cross, downhill-ski, downhill skier, downhill skiing, have the world by the tail on a downhill pull